JDK 21, the next Long-Term Support (LTS) release since JDK 17, has reached its initial release candidate phase as declared by Mark Reinhold, chief architect, Java Platform Group at Oracle.

JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 223 is a new JDK versioning scheme to make it easier to distinguish major, minor, and security releases. It's simpler, more intuitive, easier to parse, and aligns ...

Next year's standard Java release could now include opt-in support for HTTP/3, in addition to a host of features to be ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 11 is now generally available and ready for production use, bringing productivity improvements and an HTTP client API that implements HTTP/2.

The JDK 10 release in March was a feature release, and the first in the new rapid release cadence. The next LTS release will be Java 17, which is scheduled for release in September 2021. "Long term ...

The growth has put Kotlin in second place, albeit well behind Java, but now ahead of Clojure and Scala. Oracle JDK – Java Development Kit – is also losing share to OpenJDK alternatives.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the availability of NetBeans 11.3, the third update of the popular Java-based IDE in its recently implemented quarterly release cycle.

JAVA_HOME is an operating system environment variable that directs a user to the file system location where the JDK or JRE was installed.

Oracle released Java SE 7 Update 4 this week, which finally gives Mac owners the means to receive critical Java security patches at the same time they're available for users of Windows and Linux ...